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    Challenges→There must be an utterly unconditioned first principle to ground certain human knowledge and avoid an infinite regress of justification.

    Coherentist justification (Neurath, Quine) shows beliefs can be mutually supporting without any single foundational anchor.

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    • 1.Foundationalism requires identifying self-evident or infallible beliefs, but no belief withstands all philosophical skepticism.
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    • 2.Scientific theories succeed through mutual support among hypotheses, observations, and methods—not by resting on certainty.
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    • 3.Coherence explains why we rationally revise even confident beliefs when they conflict with broader systems we hold.
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    • 1.Mutually supporting false beliefs can be perfectly coherent; coherence alone cannot distinguish truth from elaborate fiction.
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    • 2.Coherentism struggles to explain how belief systems connect to reality at all without some grounding in perception or fact.
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    • 3.Without foundational constraints, competing coherent systems (Ptolemaic vs. Copernican astronomy) lack principled choice criteria.
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